# trotter
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

### Noun

trotter (plural trotters)
* One who trots.
** 2013, Stephen Dobyns, Saratoga Bestiary:Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.
** 2013 October 22, D. Ter Haar, Collected Papers of P.L. Kapitza: Volume 3‎, volume 3, Elsevier, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174:... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”. […]
* In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
* The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
    Hyponym: crubeen
    grange cookbook recipes for trotters
** 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 51:Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.
* (slang) A person's foot.
** 2004, Charley Hester, Kirby Ross, The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-popping Cow Waddy, page 27:Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.
* (UK, historical) A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
** 1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions, page 8:One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff of his county.

#### Derived terms

* globetrotter
* pig's trotter
* term-trotter
* trotter case
* trotter-man

#### Translations
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French trotter, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), borrowed from Medieval Latin *trottāre, *trotāre (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognates with English trot. More at tread.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɔ.te/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

trotter
* (usually of a horse) to trot

#### Derived terms

* trotter dans la tête
* trottiner
* trottoir

### Further reading

* “trotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.